Complete Definition of "catoptric"

English
Etymology
Gr. (katoptron), mirror
Adjective

  1. of, relating to, or produced by mirrors or reflections

#*1989, w:Nick Cave|Nick Cave, w:And the Ass Saw the Angel|And the Ass Saw the Angel
#*: It leaned, toppled forward, and loomed out over the water's grim catoptric surface that stretched before her, and then completing a half-somersault plunged headlong into the shallows of the abysmal, baptismal bilge.

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